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The landscapes of the Golden Age were seen as a unifying factor for the nation when, one hundred years ago, patriotic images were created for the soon to be independent Finland. Eras change, perspectives vary, but ultimately the relationship between humankind and nature is fundamental. The roots of Western landscape art extend far into the […]

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Museum of No Art is artist Riiko Sakkinen’s answer to an invitation to make an exhibition about institution of the museum. Something is missing, however. Sakkinen’s museum has no art. MuNA at Serlachius Museum Gösta consists of the products in the museum shop and posters printed for the exhibition. Museum of No Art has a […]

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In 2014, Serlachius Museum Gösta’s main exhibition in the new pavilion shows the international classics of pop art side by side with the Finnish ones. They enter into dialogue with the artworks of Finnish and international contemporary artists. Pop art was one of the most important shifts of the 20th century art. It emerged after […]

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Finland’s internationally most famous contemporary artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila shows a projected installation in four channels, Studies on the Ecology of Drama 1. The premiere of the artwork occurred in connection to the opening of the new Gösta museum. The approximately 28-minute installation of moving images is an artwork about methods of presentation as a path to […]

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The exhibition, which combined original Rococo, Neo-Rococo and their modern interpretations, presented the Nordic dimension of the playful style that originated in France. The artwork of those Nordic artists who embraced the Neo-Rococo, such as Albert Edelfelt, Gunnar Berndtson, Carl Larsson and Kristian Zahrtmann engage a dialogue with the art of the 18th-century Rococo: works […]

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How does a small town in Finland seem in the eyes of an outsider? A group of photographic artists photographed Mänttä for ten days at the end of September 2014. From these pictures, Ville Lenkkeri, who has a Mänttä background, has assembled Touching from a Distance, the Gösta Pavilion’s main exhibition of summer 2015. Each of […]

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Korine and Max E. Ammann have collected Outsider Art for nearly 20 years. The Art of Others, an exhibition based on the collection, will be seen in summer 2015 in Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänttä. Outsider Art offers a different perspective on art and the world. The works are characterised by fantasy, curiosity, creativity, sights and […]

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Serlachius Museum Gösta’s extensive exhibition presents the works of Anselm Kiefer who is one of the most important contemporary artists in the world. The monumental paintings belong to the German Grothe Collection. This is the first time that Anselm Kiefer’s output will be seen on such an extensive scale in Finland. The Serlachius Museums’ exhibition […]

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Summer’s main exhibition brings one of Britain’s most popular artists to Finland. Mark Wallinger is known for never repeating himself. Wallinger’s works, which vary in theme, reflect the artist’s passion for, among other things, sport, history, politics and the natural sciences. They are focused on the human being as well as the questions who we are […]

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The Starry Skies of Art is the first review in Finland in which the distant cosmos is brought closer, both in old realistic depictions and in recent works of contemporary art. The sky and its phenomena can be much more than the dramatic background of landscape paintings. Space, stars and the entire universe may be […]